Alix Kates Shulman reflects on the history of Women’s Liberation and sees today’s #MeToo Movement as a direct descendent of the consciousness-raising efforts of the 1960s.
Politics & Society
Impeach: Judicial, Political, Moral, or Spiritual?
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Rabbi Arthur Waskow argues that whether to impeach Trump is not only a political question but also a moral and spiritual question.
Tikkun Daily
What’s happening to Giuliani now was happening to him long before 9/11
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Jim Sleeper warns of the dangers of giving Rudy Giuliani any national power or influence, and argues that his removal from public life is necessary to the republic’s survival.
Justice for All
Confession: I fixed my kids’ admission into top colleges
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Greg Palast grapples with questions of class privilege and how to transform the system that unevenly distributes them.
Ecological Transformation
The Collective Asteroid of Human History
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The “Pyrocene” is upon us. Tom Engelhardt paints a disturbing picture of the climate crisis that threatens us now and in future generations.
Tikkun Daily
Violence in games—less dangerous than watching Boxing
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Rabbi Chaim Gruber delves into the psychological and sociological aspects of sports, video games, and mass shootings.
Politics & Society
Raising Racism and Ethnocentrism in Israel and the United States
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Edward Kaufman warns of the dangers of Trump and Netanyahu’s manipulation of fear in the service of maintaining power for their “threatened” identity groups.
Politics & Society
DEMOCRATS: Offer Real Community to Challenge Trump’s Imaginary Community
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Peter Gabel argues that Democrats must engage in a “positive and visionary communitarian politics” to compete with Trump’s imaginary MAGA community.
Global Capitalism
Are German Greens on the Left & Mixed Joy and Great Sorrow
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Victor Grossman reflects on the politics of Germany’s Green party and on the results of their most recent state elections.
Politics & Society
Oath of Disloyalty
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Irwin Keller professes his loyalty to “huddled masses. / To freedom and welcome, / Holiness, hope and love.”
Justice for All
No Lives Matter
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David Seidenberg looks at immigration, deportation, and related violence as Trumpian fantasy fulfillment.
Politics & Society
What Happens in El Norte Doesn’t Stay in El Norte
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Responding to the crisis at the border, Rebecca Gordon argues that many Central American refuges are fleeing dangers that were created and intensified by the United States.
Politics & Society
Today’s Christian-Jewish Zionist Alliance Imperils American Jewry
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Jim Sleeper warns of the danger American Jews will face “if their support for Israel remains as compromised as that of Zionist deal-makers, both Christian and Jewish.”
Justice for All
Minimum Wage Vote in Congress
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Take Action Now. Chuck Collins from the Institute for Policy Studies, Inequality team, calls us to support legislation to raise the federal minimum wage.
Politics & Society
Honoring Activists’ Experience
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Bayo Akomolafe reflects on ageism in the Democratic party and argues that we should not dismiss “the ‘old’ to the reliquary of irrelevance.”